I have an old project on an external hard drive (Mac FCP) and I went to burn a copy and realized I had since updated my Mac OS (10.somthing to 10.something, not a major change!) So now the drive is not recognized and I can't access any of the info!

Any quick or prolonged fixes! I'm kinda screwed because it's a video I made for a Non-profit and they really need a new copy of the dvd!

I'm not sure it has anything to do with your OS upgrade. That shouldn't hose an external drive. (actually I think there might have been a dot release that did that a year or so ago - I forgot)

But anyways - steps to try:

- Run the application disk utility in the Utilities folder and run "disk first aid" on the drive.

- If that fails - go to your nearest Mac store and purchase Disk Warrior and run that on the drive. Disk Warrior has saved me a bunch of times.

If that fails...hmmm... do some surgery on the external drive - remove the actual hard drive and put it inside the computer if it is an IDE or purchase a new FW enclosure for the drive. (this is to see if the trouble is with the FireWire bridge on the external drive)

Hope this helps!

-Chris
Studentfilms.com

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